Coping with being dropped

Football is about the constant battle between dealing with the successes and coping with points of setbacks," Peak Performance coach, Tom Bates, told FFT.

"It’s not a question of will there or won’t there be setbacks, it’s a question of, when the setback arises, how response-able am I to deal with it? Being dropped is just one area."

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To find out how you can bounce back from a spell on the bench, let Tom explain in this video.

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